9 yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—

10 ^kI appeal to you for my child, ^lOnesimus,¹ whose ^mfather I became in my imprisonment.

13 I would have been glad to keep him with me, ⁿin order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel,

Final Greetings

23 ^xEpaphras, my ^yfellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,